How To Make Infused Cold Brew Tea

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Learn How To Make Infused Cold Brew Tea in the comfort of your home without expensive equipment and gadgets to give you various flavored beverages. Pick your favorite teas to cold brew and enjoy making the perfect keto lemonade you admire the most.

Serve it together with some of our summer desserts such as Keto Berry Coffee Cake, Marble Bundt Cake, Spicy Keto Brownies, or savory Cheese Pops.

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But I can not stop just here. The Keto Cheese Bacon Nachos, as well as Goldfish Crackers, are perfect to go with summer drinks.

Cold Brew Drinks

Cold Brewed Keto Infused Iced Tea – Keto Drink is the quick and easy way to give our lifestyle varieties of flavored Low Carb beverages that are healthy and tasty. No more Keto Iced Tea at Starbucks or anywhere else. Make it at home and enjoy it fully.

Like our Cold Brew Coffee is made, you can pick just about any herbs, teas, or dry berries.

With summer around the corner, we are all looking for great refreshing beverages in our Keto or Low Carb Lifestyle. And steeping tea or dry herbs in the water or making flavored water is the best choice you can give to your body.

Nothing is healthier and easier to make than one of those great Keto Infused Iced Tea.

What is Cold Brewed Tea?

Cold Brewed is a process where you let your coffee, dry tea leaves, berries, or herbs slowly steep in the cold water stored in the fridge. In a few hours, you get a perfectly smooth, flavorful, refreshing, and slightly sweet drink you can enjoy the whole summer.

With cold infusion tea, you are using normal room temperature drinking water. Cold Brew Tea is a tea where you do not use boiling water at all. Adding boiling water to your tea might get strong bitterness, acidity, and sometimes cloudiness.

Keto Infused Iced Tea - Keto Drink as a great gift — Keto Iced Tea

Benefits of Cold Brewed Tea

There are great benefits of making tea with cold water:

by adding room temperature water, you are not killing any vitamins
your tea will always get beautifully clear and colorful
there is not a pinch of bitterness
the taste of the Iced tea gets naturally milder and sometimes even sweeter
it reduces the quantity of caffeine some teas have
fever tannins are released
antioxidants are released slower but are greater compared to a regular tea
very refreshing to the taste
no acidity compared to the hot teas
great replacement for drinking a plain water
it is hassle-free, tastes fantastic, and last longer

What is Infused Tea?

Infused tea is a simple tea that gradually gets infused with your chosen flavor. You let the flavors from dry tea leaves or fruits slowly evaporate in the water. In this way, your tea gets infused slower but on the other side, adds great flavors to your chosen drink.

Keto Infused Iced Tea - Keto Drink in mason jars with fresh leaves — cold brew infused teas

What tea to use for cold brew making?

There is no such thing as best tea to cold brew as there is not a tea that you can not use for making a perfect cold brew.

The choice is up to you and the varieties are endless. Whatever tea you choose as a base, unless you add sugar, would be Keto. And of course apart from the fruit teas, where we avoid all fruits except the berries. But there are wide varieties of berries you will never run out of choices.

Homemade Infused Cold Brew Tea

As our recipe is an Infused Tea and not infused water, I have used dry leaves and loose berry teas. I have chosen what was available and what I had at home. I always keep dry herbs in the kitchen, which was a great choice.

The best is to use loose tea, where you have pieces of chosen leaves and not some kind of powder you get in a tea bag.

Our Keto Infused Cold Brew Tea Varieties

Our varieties, as you can see in the video are

Lemon Infused Cold Brew Tea
Berries Infused Cold Brew Tea
Lavender Infused Cold Brew Tea
Peppermint Infused Cold Brew Tea

Each one of those Cold Brewed Keto Iced tea gives us not only a different taste but the colors, as you can see, were extraordinary. I could not stop looking at this rainbow once I took them out from the fridge the next day.

Keto Infused Iced Tea - Keto Drink in a crystal glasses — infused teas

Our daughter had a blast tasting them and took a different flavor to school every day with her lunch box. All the kids wanted to have a sip. Let me tell you. She was a star in those days.

Keto Iced Tea at Starbucks

For the last few years, every time we go to Starbucks, my daughter’s favorite Starbucks Iced Tea is Hibiscus. And that is exactly what I should have made for this video. Well, next time. We live in Europe, and therefore I guess the choices of Starbucks Iced Teas are a bit different. But I have just found out they also have a Cold-Brewed. But unfortunately, only a Coffee Version.

What is your favorite Keto Drink in Starbucks? Do let us know.

Cold Brew Iced Tea Drink Ideas

As already mentioned, infused cold brew tea can be made with almost any tea variety, and I am going to suggest a few more for you to have a brief idea:

Cold Brew Matcha Tea
Hibiscus Cold Brew Infused Tea
Cold Brew Herbal Tea such as jasmine, elderberry, linden, dandelion, turmeric, camomile, fennel, echinacea
Berry Tea such strawberry, raspberries, blueberries, cranberry, bilberry, blackberry, sea buckthorn, cowberry, goji berry, gooseberry, currant, mulberry
Tea loose leaves such as White Tea, Green Tea, Oolong Tea, Black Tea
Fruit Teas, where you can either use loose store-bought tea or use any of the dehydrated or dry fruits to brew a perfect infused drink

Keto Infused Iced Tea - Keto Drink in an opened Mason Jar with metal straw — iced teas

Cold Brew Tea a Complete Guide

The steps involved in making those perfect Iced Tea varieties are so simple that I even thought if I should write a post about it. But then, on the other side, not everyone knows there is a possibility of making a Cold Brewed Iced Tea.

Also, lots of people do not know the benefits of making one. And then, as I saw those beautiful colors, I just had to make them and share them with all of you.

All you do is pour room temperature water over your chosen leaves and place it into the fridge for 24 hours. That’s it. Nothing else involved.

How to Make Cold Brew Tea The Best Method

Kitchen Gadgets needed:

Mason Jars
Sieve

Ingredients needed:

Water
Dry teas, herbs, in our case lemon, berries, lavender, peppermint

*Exact measurements are listed in the recipe card below.

STEP-BY-STEP GUIDE ON HOW TO COLD BREW TEA

First Step: Prepare Ingredients

Prepare all the dry leaves, berries, or herbs you plan to infuse. In our case, it is lemon, peppermint, lavender, and berries.

Prepare a clean mason jar with the lid for each of the flavors.

Cold Brew Tea Ingredients needed. — Cold Brew Tea

Second Step: Dry teas into the jar

Place your dry teas into the mason jar or any glass jar. Each of the herbs should have a separate jar. Make sure you have a lid for each.

If you plan to make ice cubes later on, I would suggest higher concentration, in which you just double or triple the number of dry leaves.

Cold Brewed Iced Tea leafs in the jar. — Cold Brewed Iced Tea

Third Step: Add Water

Once all of the teas are in jars, add drinking water. If tap water is drinkable, it is perfect otherwise, pour bottled water.

How To Brew Cold Tea adding water into the jars. — How To Brew Cold Tea

Fourth Step: Close and steep

Fully close each jar and start with the steeping, infusing, and cold brewing process.

For a bit stronger concentration, keep the jars on the kitchen counter for an hour and place them into the fridge later. Keep in the refrigerator for 8 to 9 hours, best overnight.

How To Make Cold Brew Tea closing the lids. — How To Make Cold Brew Tea

Fifth Step: Strain

Once your infused teas are fully cold-brewed, strain each one and store them in clean jars in the fridge for 3 to 4 days.

Keto Iced Tea straining. — Keto Iced Tea

Tips and Tricks:

Stronger infusion – leave the jar on the kitchen counter for an hour before placing it in the fridge
Storage – 3-4 days once strained
Loose tea – using loose dry leaves helps in stronger infusion
Sweeten – add a pinch of dry stevia, simple syrup, or one of the sweeteners for a perfect sugar-free iced tea
Ice Cubes – add infused cold brew into an ice cube container to store for later

FREQUENTLY ASKED QUESTIONS AND ANSWERS

How to make cold brew iced tea?

Making an Iced tea out of infused cold brew is simple and easy. You can either pour a glass of cold brew tea and add ice cubes, or go even further and make ice cubes out of your prepared cold brew tea and pour just water into the infused cubes.

Can you make Keto Iced Tea Lemonade?

This would be one of the great ideas for what to do with it except an Iced Tea. All you have to do is add a few pieces of berries, Dehydrated Strawberries, and a sweetener of your choice with maybe a few drops of lemon and ice cubes. Your Keto Lemonade has been born.
Or just follow this super easy recipe for Keto Blueberry Iced Tea Lemonade.

How can you sweeten Keto Iced Tea?

Our Homemade Sugar-Free Simple Syrup makes it super easy to add a little more sweetness to those colorful, refreshing drinks.
You can also add one of the sweeteners in the kitchen or a pinch of dried stevia.

Keto Infused Iced Tea - Keto Drink in a mason jar — Cold brew teas

How long can you keep Keto Iced Tea?

As with most drinks, it is best to have the tea as fresh as possible. Once strained, it will be perfectly kept in the fridge for 3 to 4 days.

How to store Keto Iced Tea?

To store Cold Brewed Keto Infused Iced Tea is in the fridge. There it stays cold as it is supposed to be. Whenever you want to have some, it is ready to drink. And just in case you still feel you need more coldness on your summer day, add more ice cubes.

Can you freeze Infused Cold Brew?

You can also store it in the freezer as ice cubes, and I am already thinking about how great this might look. Each flavor into a different container, and you have a Summer drink with colorful ice cubes.

Can you imagine that awesomeness while serving? O my. I am making this next round. And will probably take some shots for you to see.

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Keto Infused Iced Tea - Keto Drink with metal straw — Infused tea

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Learn How To Make Infused Cold Brew Tea in the comfort of your home without expensive equipment and gadgets to give you various flavored beverages. Pick your favorite teas to cold brew and enjoy making the perfect keto lemonade you admire the most.

Prep Time 5 minutes

Additional Time 1 day

Total Time 1 day 5 minutes

Ingredients

Room Temperature drinking water
Dry Lemon
Dry Berries Leaves
Dry Lavender
Dry Peppermint Leaves

Instructions

Prepare all the dry leaves, berries, or herbs you plan to infuse. In our case, it is lemon, peppermint, lavender, and berries. Prepare a clean mason jar with the lid for each of the flavors.
Place your dry teas into the mason jar or any glass jar. Each of the herbs should have a separate jar. Make sure you have a lid for each.
Once all of the teas are in jars, add drinking water. If tap water is drinkable, it is perfect otherwise, pour bottled water.
Fully close each jar and start with the steeping, infusing, and cold brewing process. For a bit stronger concentration, keep the jars on the kitchen counter for an hour and place them into the fridge later. Keep in the refrigerator for 8 to 9 hours, best overnight.
Once your infused teas are fully cold-brewed, strain each one and store them in clean jars in the fridge for 3 to 4 days.

Notes

Stronger infusion - leave the jar on the kitchen counter for an hour before placing it in the fridge
Storage - 3-4 days once strained
Loose tea - using loose dry leaves helps in stronger infusion
Sweeten - add a pinch of dry stevia, simple syrup, or one of the sweeteners for a perfect sugar-free iced tea
Ice Cubes - add infused cold brew into an ice cube container to store for later

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